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Salmos 41

ARC · Chapter 41/150

1Bemaventurado é aquelle que attende ao pobre; o Senhor o livrará no dia do mal.

2O Senhor o livrará, e o conservará em vida; será abençoado na terra, e tu não o entregarás á vontade de seus inimigos.

3O Senhor o sustentará no leito da enfermidade; tu farás toda a sua cama na doença.

4Dizia eu: Senhor, tem piedade de mim; sára a minha alma, porque pequei contra ti.

5Os meus inimigos fallam mal de mim, dizendo: Quando morrerá elle, e perecerá o seu nome?

6E, se algum d'elles vem ver-me, falla coisas vãs; no seu coração amontoa a maldade; saindo para fóra, falla d'ella.

7Todos os que me aborrecem murmuram á uma contra mim; contra mim imaginam o mal, dizendo:

8Uma má doença se lhe tem apegado; e, agora que está deitado, não se levantará mais

9Até o meu proprio amigo intimo, em quem eu tanto confiava, que comia do meu pão, levantou contra mim o seu calcanhar.

10Porém tu, Senhor, tem piedade de mim, e levanta-me, para que eu lhes dê o pago.

11Por isto conheço eu que tu me favoreces: que o meu inimigo não triumpha de mim.

12Emquanto a mim, tu me sustentas na minha sinceridade, e me pozeste diante da tua face para sempre.

13Bemdito seja o Senhor Deus d'Israel, de seculo em seculo: Amen e Amen.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

David declares blessed the one who considers the poor, asks for healing from an illness, laments that even a close friend (who ate at his table) betrayed him, and closes the first 'book' of Psalms with a doxology.

Explanation

This psalm closes what is called 'Book I' of the Psalms (1-41) and combines a wisdom teaching (caring for the poor brings blessing) with a personal lament over illness and betrayal. The line about the close friend who 'did eat of my bread' and 'hath lifted up his heel against me' (v.9) is quoted by Jesus in John 13:18 regarding the betrayal of Judas, showing how Jesus himself identified with David's experience. The final verse ('Blessed be the Lord... Amen, and Amen') is an editorial closing formula marking the end of each of the five 'books' of the Psalter, not part of the original poem.

Fun facts

  • Verse 9 is quoted by Jesus in John 13:18 at the Last Supper, referring to the betrayal by Judas Iscariot — showing how he recognized echoes of his own experience in the Davidic psalms.
  • The final verse ('Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen') is an editorial doxology marking the end of 'Book I' of the Psalter — the other four books (42-72, 73-89, 90-106, 107-150) have similar closing formulas.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Salmos 41:1Opens the psalm declaring happy whoever cares for the poor, tying that care to a concrete promise: deliverance precisely on the day trouble comes.
  2. Salmos 41:2Continues detailing this blessing: preservation of life, prosperity in the land, and protection from falling into the hands of his own enemies.
  3. Salmos 41:3Uses an almost tender image: God caring for the sick like someone who makes up the bed of the ailing, sustaining him through the illness.
  4. Salmos 41:4Shifts to the psalmist’s own personal voice, asking for healing while openly confessing that he has sinned, linking the illness to his own guilt.
  5. Salmos 41:5Describes enemies openly hoping for his death, wanting even his name to disappear for good.
  6. Salmos 41:6Describes hypocritical visits from people who pretend to care but harbor malice inside, then go out and spread what they saw.
  7. Salmos 41:7Describes a chorus of malicious whispers, everyone who hates him gathering together to imagine the worst against him.
  8. Salmos 41:8This is the enemies’ cruel talk, already treating the illness as fatal, certain that he will never rise from his bed again.
  9. Salmos 41:9Sharing bread was a sign of covenant and trust in the ancient world; being betrayed by someone who ate at your table was considered the worst possible form of betrayal. Jesus cites this idea in the Gospel of John when speaking of Judas’s betrayal.
  10. Salmos 41:10Asks God to raise him up precisely to prove the enemies wrong, not hiding his desire to see this turnaround happen.
  11. Salmos 41:11Finds proof of God’s favor in a simple sign: the mere fact that the enemy has not yet managed to triumph over him is already enough to trust.
  12. Salmos 41:12Closes the personal part of the psalm with confidence: upheld by his own sincerity and set before God’s presence forever.
  13. Salmos 41:13This kind of double affirmation closes not only Psalm 41, but the first of the five books into which the book of Psalms is divided; each of these books ends with a similar blessing, a kind of solemn closing point for an entire section.

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